It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
I love you as New Englanders love pie!
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella.
Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
The things that I can’t have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can’t, And what I have to do I hate.
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
When you can’t have anything else, you can have virtue.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow’s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.